We are on the verge of some shifts in the order of placement averages among the remaining five teams; but of course one of them will be eliminated in the coming leg in India as CBS has already said four teams make it to the finale the following week:

Thank you! Josh and Brent with a 4 plus average is not surprising but I was surprised they still did a little bit better than Dan and Jordan, considering Dan and Jordan won a Fast Forward (one leg) before the finale.

After fixing the computational error re: Josh and Brent, they ended up with a higher placement average (doing worse, in other words) than Jordan and Daniel; although the values of the averages are pretty close.

What's really surprising is that Josh and Brent ended up with a less favorable average than half of the other remaining teams; I don't think we've ever seen that happen before.

I had planned to start the leaderboard trends tracking with leg 3 for season 22, but that was sidetracked by the no rest period pit stop and the leg being carried over to the beginning of the following episode.So it's leg 5, and I'm caught up.I'm posting the trends after leg 4 as well as leg 5 simply because I had it done, and I hate wasting the effort I put into it.

we're getting a lot of vertical movement up and down for most of the teams this time around, which would explain a lot of it. That isn't directly shown with the placement averages as such which is where the other thread comes in showing the leg by leg placements for each team.

It would be hard for this season's final three (whoever they are and I honestly don't know) to come up with an even lower placement average than last season's, though.

Well, because of which teams have been eliminated the last three legs, i.e., five of the six remaining teams have a worse placement average (5.0000 or worse) than the last three teams to be eliminated (Pam-Winnie 4.1428; David-Connor 3.0000; Jessica-John 3.7500), you can expect average placements for most of those five teams to rise considerably over second half of the Race.

Their average placement in these last few legs is as close to the same as possible. so "stable" would have been correct had they not been eliminated. I took that out since it shouldn't matter as they're now an eliminated team.

Joey-Meghan4.70004.66665.00005.0000eliminatedWith the finale and two legs, I'll be posting the final placement averages for all teams soon after the finale, and I'll be incorporating the TAR 22 teams into the overall placement average list in the O.P. soon thereafter.